[OHIO IMPRINTS] [WOMEN] Mothers' and Young Ladies' Guide (Vol. 2, No. 3 August, 1838)

MERRICK, Mrs. Maria M.

Published by T. H. Smead, Ohio City, Ohio, 1838

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Octavo, pp. [33]-48. About very good in the publisher's grey printed side-sewn wraps. Sticker residue and contemporary owner's name to front wrap, with gentle internal foxing; still sound. A very uncommon imprint from Ohio City, now an in-town Cleveland neighborhood on the west bank of the Cuyahoga River. At the time, the two settlements were rival cities, and the conflicts between them led to very long delays in the building of bridges between them (several were blown up by anti-bridge extremists). This periodical contains various articles with advice for young women and mothers. The printer, T. H. Smead, published the first newspaper on the west side of the Cuyahoga, called the "Ohio City Argus." OCLC lists just a few other titles published by Smead, suggesting that he was not prolific beyond his periodicals. Ernest Wessen only had a partial run of this magazine once, in 1952, and he never had the Ohio City Argus listed in any catalogues, thus we presume any and all early imprints of his are quite scarce in commerce. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History describes the Mothers' and Young Ladies' Guide as the "first magazine believed to have been published in Cleveland," as well as "the only women's periodical issued at the time in the West [presumably this refers to the region west of the Appalachian mountains, and not just the immediate west side of the Cuyahoga]." The magazine ran from 1837-1840. OCLC records just four holdings for any issue; no institution has anything close to a full run, and we found no holdings for this particular issue. A significant periodical, both as an example of early printing in the Cleveland area, and as a women's magazine published west of the Appalachians a full decade before the Seneca Falls Convention. Seller Inventory # 11324

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Title: [OHIO IMPRINTS] [WOMEN] Mothers' and Young ...

Publisher: T. H. Smead, Ohio City, Ohio

Publication Date: 1838

Binding: Sewn binding

Condition: Very good-

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